NOD32 messes with Steam?

I installed NOD32 a few months ago and have been happy with it. I noticed recently, however, that Steam (engine for Half-Life) is no longer running properly, and the games that play through it won't launch. I checked on steampowered.com and it says NOD32 "has been known to cause severe issues" with Steam. Have others experienced this, and have you found a solution?

Yeah I'm running v3.0.642. I see another post here by someone else who found relief from this conflict by rolling back to v2.7. Guess that's what I'll have to do. Would be nice to be able to use Steam with the most current NOD32 version. Although I realize the fault may be Steam's (some say it's a poorly written app) and not ESET's.

To update this thread, I rolled back to v2.7 and reinstalled Steam. My Steam games worked properly until my next reboot, after which Steam was screwed up again. So I'm still looking for a way for NOD32 & Steam to play nice together, if anyone has any suggestions.

Well I reinstalled 3.0.657, reinstalled Orange Box, and put the steam folder in the exclusion list. Steam games ran fine after installation, but once again, a reboot messes them up. Steam apps won't run. I can see steam.exe running in Task Manager, but it's not in the system tray, its window won't open, and it hangs up at shutdown and has to be manually terminated. Sigh.

It's the Orange Box version (pretty recent) of the Half-Life games. WinXP SP2.

wiak said:

also try put steam.exe in exclusion list and hl2.exe

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I had put the entire steam folder in based on a previous suggestion. Then it occurred to me this might only work for executables in that folder, when most of the hl2.exe's are several folders deep, in the separate game folders. So I painstakingly added all 8 of them to the exclusion list. Reinstalled the games -- worked fine until a reboot, just like before.

It's the Orange Box version (pretty recent) of the Half-Life games. WinXP SP2.

I had put the entire steam folder in based on a previous suggestion. Then it occurred to me this might only work for executables in that folder, when most of the hl2.exe's are several folders deep, in the separate game folders. So I painstakingly added all 8 of them to the exclusion list. Reinstalled the games -- worked fine until a reboot, just like before.

Good suggestion -- I did that and found I still had the same problem, which ruled out NOD32 as the cause. But I had no idea what else it could be. I had been putting off installing XP Service Pack 3, so I went ahead and did that, and lo & behold -- it solved my problem. Steam now starts up properly (icon shows up in the taskbar), and its games launch. So I dunno what the problem was, but SP3 fixed it!